Word 2003 doc vanishing when saving changes in word 2007

N

nova

I have a new laptop with windows 2007 installed. I saved a word doc from my
work pc which runs on windows 2003 onto my pendrive and opened it on my
laptop. I edited the doc and then clicked on save. After an eternity of
waiting, I got the message "check the drive to make sure the door is closed
and it contains the correct disc or cd" even though the drive wasn't in use
and I was working from a usb pen drive. So I clicked ok, and got the message
"Word failed reading from this file (~WRL0004). Please restore the network
connection or replace the floppy disc and retry". Netiher of which were
being used. I clicked cancel, got the first message again, followed by "Worf
has lost data due to a bad network connection or missing floppy, documents
replying on this data are going to be saved and then closed". Then the file
vanishes from my hard drive and a temp recovery file is inserted that when
opened is just full of question marks. So I lost all of my editing work.
Anyone know why or how to stop this happening again?
 
T

Terry Farrell

NEVER work directly with any type of removable media - especially pen
drives. Always open and save from the local HDD - copy to/from the removable
media.
 

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